Public health authorities said that 3,491 adverse reactions had been reported among those who received the vaccines by Sunday morning.
Meanwhile, a total of 4,836 doses have been wasted in the rollout, according to the Polish health ministry.
As of Sunday, Poland had injected over 2.1 million first doses, while almost 1.2 million people have received a second shot, health ministry data showed.
Poland on Sunday reported 10,099 new coronavirus infections and 104 more deaths, bringing its total number of cases during the pandemic to 1,706,986 and fatalities to 43,769.
The government this month announced a plan to roll out 16 mobile COVID-19 vaccination units to supplement a network of around 6,000 stationary inoculation centres.
The Polish prime minister’s chief of staff, Michał Dworczyk, who is in charge of the national immunization campaign, has told reporters that the top priority is to vaccinate as many Poles as possible within the shortest possible time.
Health Minister Adam Niedzielski has said that the country hopes to vaccinate 60 to 70 percent of its population against the coronavirus by the autumn.
Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki announced in December that his government had secured vaccines for the Polish population from six leading international drug makers.
Dworczyk said this month that the country had ordered almost 100 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines in total, enough to inoculate 58 million people, more than its population of around 38 million.
Michał Dworczyk, the man in charge of Poland's COVID-19 vaccination campaign. Photo: PAP/Łukasz Gągulski
The European Union, of which Poland is part, has struck deals to secure vaccines from Pfizer-BioNTech, AstraZeneca, Moderna, CureVac, Sanofi-GSK, and Johnson & Johnson.
Niedzielski said this month that around 6.7 million coronavirus vaccine doses were expected to reach Poland by the end of March, including 4.8 million from Pfizer/BioNTech, 1.15 million from AstraZeneca, and 744,000 from Moderna.
Poland's Health Minister Adam Niedzielski speaks during a press conference this month. Photo: PAP/Radek Pietruszka
On Friday, a shipment of around 157,000 doses of a COVID-19 vaccine developed by US drug maker Moderna arrived in Poland, Michał Kuczmierowski, head of the Government Strategic Reserves Agency, told the media.
Michał Kuczmierowski, head of Poland's Government Strategic Reserves Agency. Photo: PAP/Leszek Szymański
The prime ministers of Poland, Spain, Denmark and Belgium and the president of Lithuania have called for stepped-up deliveries of COVID-19 vaccines in the EU.
Poland's Morawiecki has called on the EU's executive to use its sway to ensure the timely delivery of COVID-19 vaccines amid delays in supplies from drug producers.
"Europe is a powerful market that has been hard hit by COVID-19," Morawiecki said. "Every day we are all paying a huge price for displaying a weakness toward drug makers. We can't stand aside and watch the next waves of infections engulf us."
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Source: IAR, gov.pl